Students are invited to submit an essay for our 2025 essay contest.
"Canada has become a country much practiced at outrage."
Gárces’s Travels: A Review of Jeremy Beer’s Beyond the Devil’s Road
Much might be said about the neglect of the history of the American Southwest
Harr’ today, gone tomorrow
However, the widespread association of these events with the closing of the Hotel Harrington has overshadowed the preceding history of the hotel
Hannibal is at the Gates: Gambling in America
With the current state of sports betting, companies have managed to secure a largely unregulated, highly profitable, vice-driven field of operations.
Philosophy in the Ruins
As long as we do live philosophical lives and share in that life with others, we can sprout a philosophical culture from the ruins of the one dominated by the philistines.
Marking the Year on Two Calendars: An Interview with Matthew Miller
Knowledge is a path to love, and so I’m bound to say that the book did change my affection for the place.
Facing a New Year of Grief
Grief is not a process to work through, a disorder to heal, a condition to treat, or an illness to cure.
The Hope of the American Republic: Local Coffee Shops
Because of coffee’s popularity, coffee shops can draw people together like very few other modern institutions.
Educating Hands for Human Flourishing? or Economic Growth?
"Opportunities that were not available to some due to race, socioeconomic class, or gender became available through industrial education efforts"
A Larger Category Than Political Allegiance
Humanity should remain a larger category than political allegiance even as we openly—and, one hopes, bravely—discuss and work through our politics.
There’s No Place Like Home
We are desperately in need of a collective vision of what it means to love our homes.
An Ordinary Citizen Honors A Man of Extraordinary Decency
President Carter showed what was possible when people came together for a cause and acted out of decency.
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